Thomas G. Marshall coughed up:
> Thomas G. Marshall coughed up:
>> I've been ready to make my changes to my cig. lighter from ignition
>> to "always on", and I discovered something semi disturbing before I
>> made the changes.
>>
>> Between the positive and negative terminals of the cigarette lighter
>> (pos is center, and ground/neg is shell) I'm expecting 0 resistance.


In my haste, I goofed that up of course. I'm expecting infinite resistance,
and instead and receiving 8. (?), which indicates /some/ sort of connection
between the two.





>> Without that thing depressed there should be no closed circuit at
>> all, right????
>>
>> I'm getting ~8 / ~9 Ohms between the two. (power is not supplied by
>> the battery at this point, so I'm not getting any "stray" readings).
>>
>> HELP, is this a fire in the making?????
>
> Furthermore, the fuse is pulled when I checked this.



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